From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2004-12-09T11:52:01+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-1173 ] Incorrect escaping in strings produced by   String::inspect

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Hi --

On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Florian Gro=DF wrote:

> David A. Black wrote:
>
>>> The following causes a runtime syntax error:
>>> eval('Foo #@ bar'.inspect)
>>>=20
>>> I'm not sure if that use-case is supposed to be supported, but I think =
a=20
>>> number of applications rely on it.
>> I don't think it's inspect or eval specific.
>>=20
>> irb(main):001:0> "#@a"
>> =3D> ""
>
> I think the original poster wanted '#@a'.inspect to be "\#@a" instead of=
=20
> "#@a". (There's no interpolation for single quote Strings and this form o=
f=20
> variable interpolation can be escaped via \)

I don't think that's what he meant.  eval('#@a'.inspect) doesn't raise
a SyntaxError, whereas what he's written does and that was what he was
suggesting was buggy.


David

--=20
David A. Black
dblack@wobblini.net
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